An exploratory study examining 10th-grade students’ conceptions about mountain building and relief Vélez Felipe, Ana María Vázquez Vílchez, María Mercedes Salmerón Vílchez, Purificación García Yeguas, María Araceli Carrillo Rosúa, Francisco Javier Enseñanza de las Ciencias de la Tierra Ideas previas Educación Secundaria Obligatoria Earth science education misconceptions Secondary Education Departamento de Didáctica de las Ciencias Experimentales (Universidad de Granada) Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra (CSIC-UGR) Departamento de Métodos de Investigación y Diagnóstico en Educación (Universidad de Granada) Grupo de Investigación HUM613 (Didáctica de las Ciencias Experimentales y de la Sostenibilidad) Mountain building is a subject that has not been thoroughly explored in relation to misconception research. However, mountain building is complex, involving not only endogenous processes, but also exogenous ones. The main objective of this contribution is to determine, from a holistic standpoint, the misconceptions that students hold concerning mountain building. We have designed and used a questionnaire posing three kinds of questions to students related to their: geological knowledge, emotional issues, and academic background. The main benefit offered by the present research is the identification of misconceptions not covered in the literature available. We have found that the most common misconception is that the mountains occurs only at the edge of convergent lithospheric plates and is less frequent at divergent edges. Some students related the edge of the plates to areas under the sea or on the coast. 2020-03-02T08:10:40Z 2020-03-02T08:10:40Z 2019-08 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Vélez Felipe, A.M., Vázquez Vílchez, M., Salmerón Vílchez, P., García Yeguas, A. & Carrillo-Rosúa, J. (2019). An exploratory study examining 10th-grade students’ conceptions about mountain building and relief. SHS Web of Conferences 66, 01028 (2019). [https://doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/20196601028] http://hdl.handle.net/10481/59885 https://doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/20196601028 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España